Lead SAP ABAP Developer

• SAP ECC Technical (ABAP) support and enhancements
• Analyzes system operations through monitoring, capacity analysis and root cause analysis to identify and drive change that ensures continuous improvement in system stability and performance
• Assists in the overall maintenance and support of the efficient software solutions
• Collaborates with technology teams across the Organization to leverage resources and expertise, establish software best practices and standards, and build for partnerships with IT teams
• Responsible for program designs, development, unit testing, peer reviews in an SAP ABAP environment
• Responsible for identifying development tasks in support of project planning and estimation
• Participates in and makes performance recommendations to code during peer reviews
• Works with functional and business users to troubleshoot issues in production
• Supports the building and maintenance of an Enterprise portfolio to support Application capabilities lifecycle and roadmap initiatives
• Advises business areas in the analysis of innovative technologies and how they impact the broader Enterprise Architecture
• Analyzes industry standards and trends in integration technologies
• Provides technical leadership, coaching, and mentoring to team members
• Conducts SAP unit testing to ensure systems meets user specifications
• May participate in the project planning process with team members
• May meet with process team to analyze business processes, understand requirements, and recommend technical solutions
• May analyzes existing SAP platform to identify weaknesses and develop opportunities for improvements, when assigned
• Troubleshoots existing information systems to identify errors or deficiencies and develop solutions
• Works with functional users to troubleshoot issues in production
• Troubleshoots and resolves production problems
• Escalates issues to manager and admin and process teams where necessary
• Identifies recurring and potential problems and recommends procedures and controls for prevention
• Recommends ideas for improving production support
• Documents technical design and test activities/results
• Follows established change control procedures
• Provides input to the development and maintenance of development standards for full life cycle implementations or upgrades
• Assists in evaluating new SAP application development tools

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or any other related discipline or equivalent related experience
• Current SAP certification is desired
• Requires training in fields such as information systems computer sciences or similar vocations obtained through completion of a four-year bachelor’s degree program
• Requires a minimum of five (10+) years directly related and progressively responsible experience designing building testing and deploying enterprise SAP solutions (certification preferred)
• In-depth experience in ABAP Workbench, ABAP Objects, BAPI, BADI’s, IDOCs, BDC and ALV Programming
• Experience and strong understating of SAP coding techniques in software engineering such as work processes, parallel processing, interface techniques, enhancement techniques, DDIC and ABAP tuning
• Basic experience in SAP Fiori (on-premise and cloud) and web user interface technologies: SAPUI5, and Web IDE
• Familiarity with capabilities of SAP HANA is desired but not required for this role
• Extending existing S/4, and/or writing entirely new S/4 programs and functions, CDS tools using ABAP in Eclipse (ADT), and ABAP Managed Database Procedures (AMDP)
• Application/Infrastructure/Enterprise Architect Training and Certification, e.g. TOGAF

Familiarity with capabilities of SAP HANA is desired but not required for this role